Vision Statement
Existing
in two places - the physical setting of north Louisiana and the virtual
realm of the Internet - the School of Architecture brings together educators,
students, lecturers, practitioners and interested public to mutually collaborate
in an architectural education that blends tradition and innovation with
craft and technology in order to impact its region and operate globally.
More
specifically, this entails: Providing educational opportunities for multiple
constituencies through undergraduate and graduate degree programs, post-professional
certificate studies, continuing education programs, domestic and international
study tours, public lecturers and symposia, and exhibitions.
Providing
educational opportunities that value collaboration, and involve the life-long
student of architecture in the continual discovery and understanding of
the production of architecture as a multi-discipline design and cultural
practice.
Contributing
to architecture and architectural education through leadership and participation
in research, creative work, community service, and professional organizations.
Mission
Statement
Recognizing that architecture is one of the basic or root arts in
human culture, the primary mission of the School of Architecture is to
provide an accredited professional degree program in architecture that
is reflective of the architect's role as the primary shaper and steward
of the built environment throughout the life cycle of its buildings and
communities. Additionally, the School of Architecture acknowledges that
the conscientious making of the built environment is a collaborative endeavor,
and consequently its secondary mission is to provide accredited degree
programs in allied fields of study that share responsibility for influencing
and effecting the nature and quality of the built environment.
More
specifically, this entails:
Teaching
architecture in a manner that places a premium on design excellence understood
as transcending mere utility to meet the needs of the intellectual, aesthetic
and spiritual.
Teaching
architecture with an emphasis on design excellence informed by ethics
and an appreciation of the cultural, social and physical contexts.
Teaching
architecture by placing value on design excellence as the preservation
of the environment, the maintenance of sustainable growth and change,
and the embodiment of appropriate cultural patterns, values and forms
Teaching
architecture through understanding the relationship between what has been
and what could be, and investigating both the timeless and the topical
as measures of design excellence.
Teaching
the critical theoretical framework and skills necessary to challenge current
methods and paradigms of practice in architecture and its allied fields.
Teaching
architecture and its allied fields within the context of the liberal arts
and sciences by stressing the integration of knowledge from other disciplines
in a process of design comprised of analysis, synthesis and production.
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